Det verkar som om mammor som flyttar utomlands har större förmåga att upprätthålla de emotionella banden med sina barn än pappor som flyttar utomlands, om jag tolkar en ny studie korrekt:

Using interviews with adult children left behind in the Philippines and their guardians, I show that intimacy is more of a challenge for migrant men to achieve with family in the Philippines than it is for migrant women. Their families suffer from emotional distance, because: generations operate in ”time pockets” that are ”outside the real time of the outside world”; migrant men do not accordingly adjust their performance of fathering to accommodate the needs created by distance; and fathers insist on maintaining gender-normative views of parenting.

Sedan är frågan om emotionell distans är så negativ alla gånger.